Not sure what you think, but I find this whole electronic reader thing a bit disturbing. Not because of the fact that you have access to a whole library of text at your disposal, or indeed because reading from a screen sounds horrid, and certainly not because of the current storm brewing between Google and the literary world.
Rather that there's something wonderful about having a physical book. It's highly unlikely that you're going to get mugged for having a paperback that you got for a quid from a charity shop, but with a device that's going to retail for £195 that you're going to sit on a train with, holding it in your hands, you're opening up a whole new avenue of despair:
1. The obvious thievery opportunities (which, if it happens to some people might put them off reading altogether)
2. Unless I'm missing something here, these devices have batteries, which might/could run out. Books, to the best of my current knowledge, don't run out of charge.
3. Finally, unless they've really thought it through, these new devices just won't smell right.
I need a cup of tea.
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